Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — WORLD OWES WILSON DEBT, SAYS BISHOP [ARTICLE]

WORLD OWES WILSON DEBT, SAYS BISHOP

Right Rev. R. G. Shedden in Sermon Lauds the President’s “Effort at Versailles.” New York, Oct. 21. —“For the effort which the president made at | Versailles, the world in general, and Christendom in particular, must al'show honor and gratitude to Amerioa.” j Thus spoke the Right Rev. Roscoe 1 George Shedden, Lord Bishop of Nassau, during a sermon at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, West Forty- ' sixth street, yesterday. |- Bishop Shedden;. who reached New j York last week en route to his dio- | cese in the Bahamas, went to Eng- ; land in the spring to atttend the Anglo-Catholic congress and the Lambeth conference. Remarking “the spirit of Babel seems to be gaining ascendency” in ! the world again, Bishop Shedden arJgued this is because “we hav§ been trying to make arrangements apart from God, and that brings its own natural results. “What verdict, may I ask,” concluded the bishop, “will hostorians of the future have to pass on the peace of Versailles? Of one thing ! I am certain. May I, as an outsider, say it to you? When the dudts of political controversy have cleared and personal failures and mistakes have been forgotten, no one shall be able to deny that one man at least fought all he could to maintain the level of lofty idealism.”